Kimia Alizadeh Bio, Wiki

Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. The win made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Summer Olympics. She has been listed in 100 inspiring and influential women from around the world for 2019 by BBC.

Kimia Alizadeh Age

She was born on July  10th, 1998 in Karaj, Iran and is currently 21 years old.

Kimia Alizadeh Family

Kimia family are Iranian Azerbaijani. Her father is from Zonuz near Tabriz and her mother is from Ardabil. Until after the 2016 Olympics, her last name was incorrectly recorded as Zenoorin.

Kimia Alizadeh Career

Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. The win made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at the Summer Olympics.

She also won a gold medal in the women’s 63-kg class at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics. She beat London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 gold medallist Jade Jones at the 2015 World Championship to win a bronze medal. She also won a silver medal two years later at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.

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Kimia Alizadeh Defection

In January 2020, Alizadeh announced that she was leaving Iran permanently for Europe. Explaining her defection, she stated, “I am one of the millions of oppressed women in Iran who they have been playing with for years.”

“They took me wherever they wanted. I wore whatever they said. Every sentence they ordered me to say, I repeated. Whenever they saw fit, they exploited me,” she wrote, adding that credit always went to those in charge.

Alizadeh denied she’d been invited to Europe or given a tempting offer and did not confirm which country she had gone to.

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